Abstract Neolithization was a complex, protracted process of domestication, sedentarization, and technology change that occurred in various combinations times places around the world. Understanding causal relationships among those other important human behaviors remains an analytical challenge. This study examines through lens lithic artifact variation Lake Titicaca Basin, Peru. Drawing on prev...

Governments and Governmental organisations are currently encouraging people to take part in exercise, and particularly competitive exercise, without apparent regard to one inevitable consequence, an increasing incidence of injuries. By definition physical exercise involves stress which is being applied through sport to more and more people. Figures made available by the Central Council of Physi...

In this paper, we present a new and efficient clustering approach for scene analysis in sports video. This method is generic and does not require any prior domain knowledge. It performs in an unsupervised manner and relies on the scene likeness analysis of the shots in the video. The two most similar shots are merged into the same scene in each iteration. And this procedure is repeated until th...

The aim of this critical appraisal and hazards of surface electromyography (SEMG) is to enhance the data acquisition quality in voluntary but complex movements, sport and exercise in particular. The methodological and technical registration strategies deal with telemetry and online data acquisition, the placement of the detection electrodes and the choice of the most adequate normalization mode...

[Purpose] The purpose of the present study was to examine the effects of neurofeedback training on electroencephalogram changes in the cervical spine in adults with forward head posture through x-ray. [Subjects and Methods] The subjects of the study were 40 college students with forward head posture, randomly divided into a neurofeedback training group (NFTG, n=20) and a control group (CG, n=20...

Day-night reversal and external environment change will affect people’s biological clock. When the biological clock cannot synchronize with external environment, jet lag occurs, influencing people’s sleep and bringing them fatigue, inappetence, indigestion, emotional lability and other body-mind problems. Many world records of athletics events were broken in the afternoon or at dusk, during whi...

PURPOSE There is accumulating evidence for the efficacy of nonpharmacological multimodal stimulation interventions in maintaining cognition and improving quality of life in people with mild-to-moderate dementia. However, the complex nature of these interventions limits their application in practice and research. We report here the design and development of a culturally appropriate framework, th...

This commentary builds on a companion article in which Kim et al compare brain activation in elite, expert, and novice archers during a simulated target aiming task (Kim et al. 2014. Cogn Behav Neurol. 27:173-182). With the archery study as our starting point, we address 4 neural processes that may be responsible in general for elite athletes' superior performance over experts and novices: neur...

An archer requires a well-balanced and highly reproducible release of the bowstring to attain high scores in competition. Recurve archers use mechanical device called “clicker” check draw length. The fall clicker that generates an auditory stimulus should evoke response brain. purpose this study is evaluate event-related potentials during archery shooting as clicker. Fifteen high-level particip...